Discover the alternative oriental music scene in the Arab countries with bands from Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Palestine & Egypt. Classical oriental, oriental jazz, fusion, rap: each CD is the unique expression of an artist or a band's personality. Yet they all have one thing in common: they breathe with our middle-eastern culture.
André Msane is a highly versatile oud player, equally at ease with modal improvisations ("Taqâsîm"), Lebanese song, Arabic popular music and the hymns of the great Syriac tradition.
When a group of seven young, talented, and highly inventive musicians get together to rehearse daily for six months on the first floor of a derelict building, the end result is ‘Qarar Izala’, the
The musicians of the group Hewar, who pursue their careers in different continents, have taken “9 days of solitude” off their busy schedules to record this new piece of work, thus pursuing their m
These newcomers on the Lebanese rap scene hail in actual fact from Palestine, but have spent their young existence in the refugee camps of Borj el Barajneh.
